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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Learning Curve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sedaris suggests his brother is radically different from his other siblings because
(a) He is a North Carolina native with gentlemanly Southern values.
(b) He is much younger, and a North Carolina native.
(c) He is the oldest, and therefore the most conservative.
(d) He is more refined than they are.

2. Rather than sports, Sedaris states that he and his fellow speech therapy students were more interested in
(a) Fighting and lifting weights.
(b) Playing video games.
(c) Baking, making scrapbooks, and doing art projects.
(d) Studying and graduating early.

3. What skill does Sedaris admire in his mother that eludes him?
(a) She can explain how a radio works.
(b) She can smoke an entire cigarette without taking it out of her mouth.
(c) She can solve his father's equations.
(d) She can tan the backs of her ears and her palms.

4. Sedaris' enjoyment of the ocean was ruined by
(a) His father's explanation of the tides.
(b) His mother's comparing it to a saltwater toilet.
(c) His interest in sun-bathing.
(d) His experiences swimming in it.

5. Before Paul's personality fully emerged, his parents tried to interest him in
(a) Math and science.
(b) Writing and painting.
(c) Music and sports.
(d) Girls and dating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Sedaris offered a job teaching a writing workshop?

2. While Sedaris has been preoccupied with tanning, his father has been preoccupied with

3. Where music is concerned, Sedaris' father could be described as a

4. Mr. Mancini claims to be

5. Sedaris' father asks him if he knows

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